Новости за 22.06.2022

This week, The New Republic is launching The Run-Up, a weekly newsletter that takes a deep dive into America’s permanent campaign season. Every Thursday morning, readers will get what they need to stay abreast of what’s happening in key races across the country, learn more about the issues that are animating big political contests, and make more sense of the endless grind of election news.

It’s a paradox worthy of Joseph Heller’s classic 1961 novel, Catch-22. Donald Trump’s deeply problematic state of mind made him unfit to be president in 2017. He got elected anyway, and now that same mental impairment, several legal experts say, may disqualify him from being held accountable for the crimes he committed in the Oval Office.

In the medium of bodily fluids, Ottessa Moshfegh is a virtuoso. Since her debut novella, McGlue, which opens with a dazed sailor waking to discover his “shirtfront is stiff and bibbed brown” with blood, Moshfegh has cycled through an array of genres. She has published a neo-noir (Eileen), a 9/11 novel (My Year of Rest and Relaxation), a riff on the cozy mystery (Death in Her Hands), a story collection (Homesick for Another World), and, now, with Lapvona, a quasi-religious parable set in Europe’s Dark Ages. Читать дальше...

Last week, Politico reported that Joe Manchin opposes making clean energy tax credits “direct pay.” If that sounds like another impossibly wonky detail about energy policy, that’s because it is. But it has potentially massive implications.

On Monday, during an appearance on the Fox Business channel, former Vice President Mike Pence was asked what may very well have been the easiest question in the history of media—or, for that matter, of questions.

The star of Tuesday’s fourth hearing of the January 6 committee was a ramrod-straight Arizonan, a grizzled figure who could play a retired sheriff in an old-time Western. Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the state House, was there to talk about how he had repeatedly stood up to pressure from Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani to overturn the 2020 election results and appoint a fake slate of electors.